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How Many Mathematicians Does It Take To Cook A Turkey?

December 23, 2006 By Jenny Ryan 3 Comments

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My husband and I are in charge of cooking the turkey this year for Christmas. We brine it before we bake it, so I emailed the recipe to my mom so that she could buy the brine ingredients ahead of time.

When we arrived at my parents’ house yesterday they took us out to lunch, and in the car on the way home the talk turned to turkey.

“I got a 10-pound bag of ice. Is that enough?” asked my mom.

“Well let’s see. It’s a math problem,” responded my husband.

“Aaarrrggghhh!!!” I yelled, grabbing my head in agony.

“A pint’s a pound the word around,” began my husband.

“Yep, there went my frontal lobe,” I announced.

Eventually-and a long and painful eventually it was-they reached the point in their conversions that they’d been aiming for all along: how many ounces are in a gallon?

“I thought there were 16 ounces in a gallon,” said the accountant.

“No, there are 64 ounces in a gallon,” said the math teacher.

“No-oo,” there are 128 ounces in a gallon,” said the engineer.

“And there goes the temporal lobe. Damn math!”

Filed Under: CFG And Family Affairs, CFG Is Not A Mathemagician Tagged With: cooking the christmas turkey

Comments

  1. Claire says

    December 23, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    As I work in metrics I’m totally lost and can’t offer any solution to this!

    Happy Christmas!

  2. tiggerprr says

    December 24, 2006 at 1:12 am

    Hmmm…Math is not my friend. This post made my brain ‘splode. LOL

  3. Administrator says

    December 31, 2006 at 2:28 pm

    I’m totally lost
    This post made my brain ‘splode.

    Yeah, TELL me about it!

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